Iran: Criminal Sentencing of Political Prisoner Amin Farahavar to Death
International Call for Immediate Action to Save the Lives of Ill and Death Row Political Prisoners
On Thursday, May 1, 2025, the regime’s judiciary sentenced Amin Farahavar to death in the Revolutionary Court of Rasht. Amin is a political prisoner, a supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and a poet from Gilan province under the pseudonym of Payman. He was sentenced to death in a court session, presided over by the criminal judge Ahmad Darvish-Goftar, without the presence of a lawyer.
Payman, 37, was arrested in August 2024 in Rasht. After a period of interrogation at the Intelligence department, he was transferred to the Misagh Ward of Lakan Prison and was sentenced to death on the regime-fabricated charge of moharebeh (waging war against God). He had previously been arrested and imprisoned due to his political activities.
This political prisoner suffers from complications from gallbladder surgery and intense pain in the area of the operation. During interrogation, he experienced internal bleeding but has been denied medical treatment.
The Iranian Resistance once again calls on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and other international human rights organizations to condemn the criminal death sentences in Iran and to take immediate action to save the lives of those on death row, particularly those who are ill.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
7 May 2025